Years ago, when I was rotten with virtue,
I believed loveliness
was just a face, a flower,no underside to it, no dark complication.
—Stephen Dunn, opening lines to “Loveliness” from Between Angels (W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)
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“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho
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Eugène Carrière
Le Contemplateur (1902)
Illustrating the poem Boaz Endormi (Boaz Sleeping) by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), this painting is one of five images created by Carrière to commemorate the centennial of Hugo’s birth.
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Untitled Portrait of Two Girls
Gertrude Käsebier
United States,1901
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou (via essentz)
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The Miroku Bosatsu is also kown as the “Buddha of the future”, the new saviour” who would lead people on the road to Enlightenment.
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